This tense election season is also peak season at a popular landmark of the American past: the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. Nearly one million people visit the Civil War ...

Scenes from a Slow Civil War,” was a National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for Nonfiction, and his book, “The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,” was the ...

The holiday’s origins can be traced to the American Civil War, which killed more than 600,000 service members — both Union and Confederate — between 1861 and 1865. The first national observance of ...